A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.